<section xml:id="relnotes_platforms"><info><title>Supported Platforms</title></info>
<para>
Since 9.12, BIND has undergone substantial code refactoring and
- cleanup, and some very old code has been removed that was needed
- to support legacy platforms which are no longer supported by their
- vendors and for which ISC is no longer able to perform quality
- assurance testing. Specifically, workarounds for old versions of
- UnixWare, BSD/OS, AIX, Tru64, SunOS, TruCluster and IRIX have been
- removed.
+ cleanup, and some very old code has been removed that supported
+ obsolete operating systems and operating systems for which ISC is
+ no longer able to perform quality assurance testing. Specifically,
+ workarounds for UnixWare, BSD/OS, AIX, Tru64, SunOS, TruCluster
+ and IRIX have been removed.
</para>
<para>
On UNIX-like systems, BIND now requires support for POSIX.1c